Plea of insanity

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Title:

Plea of insanity

Author:

Hoffman, Jilliane, 1967-

ISBN:

9781593155070

Publication Information:

New York : Vanguard Press, c2009.

Physical Description:

426 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject Term:

Women lawyers -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Schizophrenics -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Miami (Fla.) -- Fiction.

Genre:

Legal stories.

Suspense fiction.

Summary:

Young and ambitious prosecutor Julia Valenciano is facing a case that could launch her career. The defendant is David Marquette, a successful Miami surgeon and devoted family man. The victims were Marquette's wife and three small children. His experienced defense team claims paranoid delusions caused by schizophrenia drove him to slaughter his entire family. But the state suspects Marquette's insanity defense is being fabricated to disguise murders that were cold blooded and calculated.

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The prosecutor¿Julia Valenciano. Young and ambitious, and facing a case that could launch her career. The defendant¿David Marquette. A successful Miami surgeon and devoted family man. The victims¿Marquette¿s own wife and three small children. The plea¿Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity. The perfect father and model husband, David Marquette seemingly just snapped. His experienced defense team claims paranoid delusions caused by schizophrenia drove him to slaughter his entire family.

But the state suspects Marquette¿s insanity defense is being fabricated to disguise murders that were cold blooded and calculated. Worse, Julia believes Marquette could be responsible for a string of unsolved, brutal homicides. Could he be one of the most prolific and elusive serial killers in the country¿s history? To bring him to justice, Julia must embark on a terrifying personal journey back into her own past¿something she has struggled to forget for fifteen years. And this will lead her to confront a future so chilling, she¿s not sure she will ever be able to face it...

Plea of Insanity confirms Jilliane Hoffman as a major thriller writer at the peak of her powers.

Author Notes

Jilliane Hoffman was an Assistant State Attorney between 1992 and 1996. Until 2001, she was the Regional Legal Advisor for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, advising special agents on complex investigations including narcotics, homicide, and organized crime. Plea of Insanity is her third novel, following the international bestsellers, Retribution and Last Witness . She lives in Florida.

www.jillianehoffman.com

Reviews (2)

Publisher's Weekly Review

In this gripping legal thriller from Hoffman (Retribution), Julia Vacanti, a 28-year-old Miami assistant state attorney, helps to prosecute David Marquette, a Miami surgeon accused of stabbing his wife and their two older children as well as smothering their baby in Coral Gables, Fla. David's plea of insanity finds the prosecution team working double time to prove he's just a clever psychopath faking schizophrenia to avoid Florida's death penalty. Meanwhile, the conflicted Julia obsesses about her schizophrenic brother, Andrew Citro, who was convicted of the fatal stabbings of their parents when she was 13. When Julia learns Andrew was committed to a center for the criminally insane in New York, she re-establishes contact, which results in some major courtoom drama. Hoffman's intriguing plot snakes around both cases as Julia questions her own mental health and a future only a nail-biting sequel might fully answer. Author tour. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

Booklist Review

Julia Vacanti may seem to be an up-and-coming Florida prosecutor, but dig a little deeper, and it's easy to see she's living a lie or at least half a lie, the half that pretends her parents weren't murdered by her brother when she was a child. Then along comes the case of a lifetime: a prominent young doctor is accused of brutally murdering his wife and his three young children. The state claims the man is a monster. The defense claims he's suffering from schizophrenia the same illness, Julia realizes, that was behind her brother's crime. Could the state, which will ask for the death penalty, be denying justice to a victim of mental illness? Courtroom dramatics are less the point here than in many legal thrillers. It's Julia's torment as she comes to terms with her family's tragic history and Hoffman's dissection of the legal and moral arguments surrounding the insanity plea that push things along and the questions raised will linger long after the story ends.--Zvirin, Stephanie Copyright 2009 Booklist

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